Mashary Al-Naim is  professor of architectural criticism at the faculty of architecture at Al Dammam University, Saudi Arabia.  and was a former chair of the Architecture Department at King Faisal University (KFU) and former dean of the advancement in (PMU).

Dr. Al Naim has a PhD in Architecture from the University of Newcastle Upon Tyne. He served on numerous architectural and design juries (such as Arab city award, Sultan Qabos Award and King Abdullah of Jordan Award) and has consulted on countless design projects throughout the world, but especially in the Middle East and Gulf Region.   

Al Naim is an active researcher, a prolific journalist, and practicing architect.  He serves as a senior editor of Albenaa magazine (the oldest, widely distributed architectural journal in the Arabic World) since the year 2000, and writes a weekly column in Al-Riyadh Newspaper (major local Newspaper) since 1996 and a monthly column in several journals.  He reviewed two projects for the Aga Khan Award in architecture in 2007 (Karachi and Algeria). He served in the editorial board of a number of international magazines. Al Naim was a member of many scientific committees in many international conferences.

Al Naim worked with in a think-tank team from Islamic countries appointed by the Aga Khan Cultural Trust to review architectural education in this part of the world in 2007-2008. Also, he contributed with a number of intellectuals in a special issue published by the Middle East Institute in Washington MEI about urbanization in the Middle East 2009

Dr. Al-Naim has published in both English and Arabic on topics related to sustainability, environmental behaviour studies, identity and symbolism in the built environment, traditional and contemporary architecture in the Arab countries and architectural education and practice.  

He published several books including: Potentiality of the Traditional House (1998), Ideas and Visions in Saudi Architecture (2006) (Arabic), Political Influences and Identity of Urban Form (2005), Architecture and Culture: Critical Essays in Arab Architecture (2005) (Arabic), Home Environment in The Saudi Arabia and Gulf States (2006) (Two Volumes